Humanizing Indigenous People in Film

It is an understatement to say that the United States has a troubled relationship with Native Americans. And the mass perception of Indigenous people has been severely damaged not only by Eurocentric and Americentric history, but by mass media as well. In the early days of Hollywood when Westerns were all the rage, the depiction of Native Americans ranged from sympathetic to downright (albeit comically) malicious, but always stereotypical. The rise of Wild West vaudeville shows, as well as the popularization of the conflict between cowboys and “Indians” was the beginning of the mass misrepresentation of Native Americans. <a href="https://medium.com/the-quaker-campus/humanizing-indigenous-people-in-film-c8b50eb0224a">Read More</a>